Nowhere Networks Strike World’s Largest Maritime High-Speed Internet Deal

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Stena Line, one of the world’s largest ferry operators with over 25,000 yearly departures, has chosen Nowhere Networks as its supplier of fast internet for its fleet. Implementation has started and by the beginning of next year 32 of Stena Line’s ships will be connected to Nowhere Networks high speed internet Network. The total distance of the routes covered will be approximately 4000 km, the largest network of its kind in the world, reports an article published...

https://mfame.guru/nowhere-networks-strike-worlds-largest-maritime-high-speed-internet-deal/

World’s First Deep Sea WiFi Trialled 

  • Deep-sea WiFi boxes trialed
  • The 10kg suitcase contains a WiFi modem device for internet connectivity at sea
  • Seafarer organizations hail the new initiative. 
  • Work on reducing the weight and cost of the WiFi box. 
  • Further remote area operation to be explored 

Seafarers stuck on ships are always looking for ways to communicate with their friends and families. They often go months without any connections with the family because of low connectivity. They can only connect with their families once...

https://mfame.guru/worlds-first-deep-sea-wifi-trialled/

Truck platooning at risk following Wi-Fi ‘supersizing’ by FCC

A unanimous decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday to reallocate spectrum bandwidth set aside for vehicle safety could affect deployment of truck platooning down the road.

The agency’s four commissioners and Chairman Ajit Pai voted 5-0 to adopt new rules that repurpose 45 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum within the 5.9 gigahertz (GHz) band — currently used for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies such as platooning — for unlicensed operations such as Wi-Fi. The rules...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-platooning-at-risk-following-wi-fi-supersizing-by-fcc

Australian ports offer free WiFi to seafarers

Seafarers onboard ships entering Australian ports, will from now on experience a new initiative called “Seafarer Connect”. Specifically, the system will offer free WiFi signal and internet access to every seafarer visiting Australia. For the records, the initiative was first launched in Sydney, during a meeting of the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

In fact “Seafarer Connect” will deliver 100 GB of connectivity, while seafarers will be benefited with a 4G signal, by using their...

https://safety4sea.com/australian-ports-offer-free-wifi-to-seafarers/

Maritime 5G To Accelerate IoT Adoption in Shipping Industry

  • MAMIME, the world’s first maritime 5G communication project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
  • The project aims to develop optimised LTE and WIFI systems, and research dedicated to 5G solutions for the maritime applications.
  • The exhibition will also analyze key solutions making waves across the industry, such as digitalisation standards and remote pilotage.

According to an article published in Future IoT, as the next big leap in mobile and wireless communications, 5G is expected to...

http://mfame.guru/maritime-5g-to-accelerate-iot-adoption-in-shipping-industry/

Why Light May Be The Saviour for Ship Wifi

Martyn Wingrove writes about the next-generation light technology that offers better availability, capacity, reliability and security than wifi, for an article in Marinemec.

Here’s an excerpt from it.

Signals do not get transmitted?

Wifi’s radio communications signal does not transmit well through steel decks and bulkheads.

To overcome this problem engineers came up with creative workarounds, overall, improvements but with considerably higher costs than expected.

Metal frameworks acts a barrier?

Wir...

http://mfame.guru/why-light-may-be-the-saviour-for-ship-wifi/

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